Safeworld, co-founded by Carnegie Mellon’s Ding Zhao, has raised $12.2 million to test AI-controlled robots in simulations full of realistic digital humans. We explain how its tests work, what solar-farm robot maker Gritt wants from them, the case for and against a third-party tester, and the standards and EU rules now arriving.
China’s National Data Administration said on 13 September 2026 that it will promote embodied intelligence data standards “at an appropriate time” after a symposium chaired by Liu Liehong. We set out who attended, the embodied AI standards already published, the training grounds and datasets behind the policy, and how it compares with the EU Data Act.
On 11 September 2026 TechCrunch reported that Mecka AI, the Toronto and New York startup that pays people to record everyday tasks with body sensors and iPhones, is nearing a Sequoia-led round at about a $500 million valuation. The round size is unknown and the terms are not final. We read the report, the June funding coverage, Mecka AI’s own site, the EgoVerse paper it co-authored, the dataset explorer it hosts and the hiring page, and counted what agrees, what disagrees and what nobody has said.
Robot protest footage from Warsaw travelled a great deal further this week than the story sitting underneath it. On Monday 7 September 2026, around thirty machines — bipedal humanoids and dog-like quadrupeds — marched in circles outside Poland’s Ministry of Digital Affairs, waving flags while loudspeakers played the chants “Defend workplaces”, “Time for rules” and […]
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